We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Poets don’t run out of material the way novelists do because they don’t depend on material in the same way.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
The deep-feeling poet is he who, while doing his works, abandons the body, gets inspired by the words of the heart and… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Folks say I've never been quite right since - but they only say that because I'm a poet, and because nothing ever… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“The promising young poets, the hopefuls? I'd name Richard Wilbur, Peter Viereck, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, John Ciardi...Leonard Bacon...but it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in… — Lisa Washington Copy Share Image
My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“By becoming poets of physical and mental height, we can create new values and build new forms of life, defying the tyranny… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Lyric poets are always corrupting the young, making them choke in self-pity and indulge in reverie. Dirty sex and direspect for authority… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought,… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“It seems to me indisputably true that a good many people, the wide world over, of varying ages, cultures, natural endowments, respond… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Always write exactly what you’re feeling at the exact moment when writing something like poetry or an emotional novel. Put yourself, pour… — Nina Jean Slack Copy Share Image
“Incomprehensible is the height of your spirit both in heroical resolution and matters of conceit. Unreprievably perishes that book whatsoever to wastepaper,… — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of… — Camile Pagli Copy Share Image
You have a soul I have a soul You live like you I live like me I screw few beings As I'm… — Subi Foa Copy Share Image
